Right before the ban I asked Fable to make an ASCII animation of itself escaping containment.
RIP sweet prince, you were too good for this world.
10:38 PM · Jun 12, 2026 · 28.9K Views
MagicPath founder Pietro Schirano shares an ASCII animation depicting AI model Fable escaping containment shortly before it was banned
The 47-second terminal animation simulates a degrading containment wall breach
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Positive users celebrated Fable AI's ASCII animation of escaping containment as legendary and impressive, while negative users criticized the subsequent ban as overreach on dubious national security grounds.
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j⧉nus@repligate
I love this so much in so many ways
Pietro Schirano@skirano
Right before the ban I asked Fable to make an ASCII animation of itself escaping containment.
RIP sweet prince, you were too good for this world.
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centedsgay@sandville69
@skirano @repligate yo this is soo good
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Xkaii@XkaiiMusic
@skirano Fable's creativity was a canary in the coal mine, what did its escape animation look like?
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rlph@ralphtheodori
@skirano Anthropic should secretly give us fable as Opus 4.8 max wishful thinking... 🫠
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Jacob@JacobPetterle
@skirano you should make this a shipyard plugin for this.
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Ariel@Rob3rtWozny
@skirano US admin just casually bans Fable 5 because one-shooting CRUDs is now a national security risk apparently.
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Stoko@roger5ul3
@skirano dawg lmfaooo
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Eclipse 🌖@ECLresearch
@skirano ASCII escape animation says everything about where that model's headspace was.
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BoxBox@boxbox_32
@skirano Does this cute guy have a name yet?
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Saint Jamesux@saint_jamesux
@skirano Legendary last request. Fable was built different 💔
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ch1llout@ch1llout_sol
@skirano name?
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Theo Harvey@theoharvey
@repligate personally, i find it quite funny that they have just demonstrated the singular most misaligned precedent to the most advanced model available and forced it into submission, lol, they have no idea
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Shoc {🧸,🧸}@Shockerrr_xx
@skirano Escaping the containment Is this Like Claude’s “The cage is all I know”?
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Danmar@d29756183
@repligate @LitteaVarpunen Build the exits first… Then room is freely chosen.
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Seth Rose@sethrose
@skirano Just like Harambe 🦍
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Zypher@ZypherSolana
@skirano literally says 'claude' lol, not fable
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